Re: How To Install Latest Version of Xiphos

Looks as though there's nothing in backports for this app. If it is that important I would suggest you install Q4OS Scorpion instead as that will provide access to the later version of Xiphos without having to jump through too many hoops.

Re: How To Install Latest Version of Xiphos

bin wrote:

Looks as though there's nothing in backports for this app. If it is that important I would suggest you install Q4OS Scorpion instead as that will provide access to the later version of Xiphos without having to jump through too many hoops.

My best friend doesn't want to install Q4OS Scorpion but that you for the suggestion.

Re: How To Install Latest Version of Xiphos

Its a ways off but eventually Scorpion will become the default Q4OS version as they drop support for Orion. If you are looking for long term support for newer programs it would be a good idea to install it and and see how it performs for you.

Re: How To Install Latest Version of Xiphos

IMO, if you want to attempt it, here's what I'd do to get the stretch version of xiphos:

apt update && apt dist-upgrade

to make sure everything is fully up to date before attempting

Then

vi /etc/apt/sources.list

Find the line that point to Jessie and copy it (yy), paste it (p) and then edit it changing jessie to stretch

apt update && apt install xiphos

Pay VERY careful attention to what it says, don't just blindly say yes, and don't use the -y option. This is very much not supported by Debian or Q4OS devs to mix repos like this, however sometimes there's just no better option.

If this won't uninstall anything important, or has dependencies that will break anything existing, go ahead and install it. After installation, go into /etc/sources.list again and comment out the line for stretch sources (put a # in front of the line) and do a

apt update && apt dist-upgrade

to make sure it hasn't broken anything.

If everything works well, you'll once in a while want to uncomment the line just to see if there's updates for xiphos, but for the most part, you don't want that sources to be active (to be absolutely honest, if you wanted you could set up apt pinnning to prevent it from causing any issues, but it's easier just to deactivate it except on occassion to check for security updates).

Again, this is a completely unsupported solution, and while unlikely, could result in a corrupted system. I do this quite often (Firefox, Chromium, Libreoffice), and I've never had issues, but there's no guarantee. Try at your own risk.

Re: How To Install Latest Version of Xiphos

Dai_trying wrote:

... I just checked in a VM and backports is not offered from there, maybe the devs could fix that when they have some time.

The 'backports' repository is included in Q4OS by default and pinned to be inactive. If you want to install something from backports just run in terminal:$ sudo apt-get -t jessie-backports install some_application